Potato Please has twenty achievements: fourteen visible, six hidden. The global percentages below were read from Steam on 6 November 2026. Two of the twenty are easy to miss, and one of those is missable for the whole save.
Potatoes: 1,000 and 10,000
| Achievement | Steam description | % | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Cut | Peel your first potato. | 99.2% | Unmissable. |
| A Thousand Peels | Peel 1,000 potatoes, by hand or by machine. | 67.1% | Hand and machine both count. Comes naturally. |
| Ten Thousand | Peel 10,000 potatoes. | 56.1% | Hand and machine both count. Machines make this a formality. |
| Old School | Peel 500 potatoes by hand. No machines needed. | 25.7% | Hand only. The counter is shared across playthroughs, so a new shift does not reset it. |
| These Hands Were Made for Peeling | Peel 1,000 potatoes by hand. | 6.3% | Hand only, same shared counter. The rarest non-hidden achievement. |
Global unlock rates from Steam, 6 November 2026. The shared-counter detail is from the jxselee Steam guide (5 November 2026).
Shift and automation
| Achievement | Steam description | % | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warmed Up | Finish the warm-up shift. | 95.3% | Story progress at the start of the first shift. |
| Industrial Revolution | Let the machines do the peeling. | 62.8% | Buy the first peeling machine and let it peel one potato. |
| Fully Automated | Let the machines handle the heavy lifting. | 50.3% | The whole line must run without you, including the claw crane and the cableway. Bought through normal story progress. |
| Employee of the Month | Your dedication has been recognized. | 50.7% | Reach rank 21, the maximum rank. A normal run that does not skip upgrades gets there. |
| The Quota | Peel every last potato. | 49.7% | Finish the pile, immediately before the ending. |
“Rank 21” and the claw crane/cableway detail are from the jxselee guide; the rest follows from the achievement text.
Odds and ends
| Achievement | Steam description | % | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Boy | A little kindness goes a long way. | 76.1% | Feed the dog near the warehouse. |
| A Heart of Gold | Even the smallest act of kindness matters. | 61.1% | The people of Varenka send letters asking for potatoes. Send once. |
| One Last Puff | Take a moment to clear your lungs. | 82.9% | When your character wants a smoke, take the break and finish the whole cigarette. |
| No Escape | Your shift isn’t over yet. | 12.1% | Walk away from the warehouse in any direction. Ignore the loudspeaker warnings and cross the outer perimeter. A cutscene starts. |
| Unauthorized Passenger | This is not an approved transport method. | 3.0% | Ride the sack cableway at least 3 metres while holding on. Full route below. |
Routes for Good Boy, One Last Puff, No Escape and Unauthorized Passenger are documented in the jxselee guide and its Russian original.
Unauthorized Passenger, step by step
- Buy the Sack Cableway upgrade in the shop.
- Fill a sack with potatoes and put it on the loading spot at the cableway station.
- Wait for the hook to come down and grab the sack.
- Stand under the sack while it is still low, look at its underside, and hold E.
- Ride until the achievement pops. The guide warns: do not jump on or stand on the sack.
This route was written by Meta Aezven in Russian and translated by laura; both guides are linked on the sources page. It is the rarest achievement in the game at 3.0%.
The hidden achievements (ending spoilers)
| Achievement | Steam description | % | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| For the Motherland | Your loyalty has been noted. | 26.3% | Pull the Northern Front lever |
| Traitor | Your service has been terminated. | 30.7% | Pull the Western Industry lever |
| The Last Harvest | Every harvest must end. | 23.4% | Pull the Varenka lever |
| Your Own Executioner | You taught him well. | 9.8% | Non-Motherland line while Pavel is loyal — Varenka is the most-reported route; the only missable |
| Every Path Has a Price | There is no perfect ending. | 13.8% | See all three levers, via a manual save in the cab |
Full routes, including Pavel’s loyalty score, are on the endings page.
A sensible achievement order
- Before automating: Old School. Push toward These Hands if you enjoy the knife; the counter carries across saves.
- During the normal run: Warmed Up, First Cut, A Thousand Peels, Industrial Revolution, Employee of the Month, The Quota.
- Odds and ends: Good Boy (feed the dog), A Heart of Gold (send potatoes to Varenka), One Last Puff (finish a cigarette), No Escape (walk off the perimeter).
- Before the train: make the manual save in the cab.
- Endings: pull each lever, reloading between them. For Your Own Executioner, keep Pavel loyal and pull Varenka last.
- Cleanup: Ten Thousand, Fully Automated and Unauthorized Passenger are the long tail.
Time to 100% is community-reported at 4–5 hours, using one playthrough plus ending reloads. The developer has not published a length.